Just imagine what politicians might let fly if they could go off script.
Republicans could finally say: “We lost both chambers in the mid-2000s because we were tone deaf to the public, and then we put up a non-candidate in 2008. The whole thing was clearly because of a leadership vacuum that sucked all the life out of the party, and even today we continually aim our guns at our own feet.”
And Democrats could tell people: “We don’t really know how to run the economy, we’re just hoping it grows while we’re in office so we can point to success. Meanwhile, we’ll keep piling on social programs and pointing out how being rich is bad. Of course, we’re glad that people haven’t noticed that all of us are rich, and that Republicans keep aiming for each other.”
